KENNEL MANAGEMENT OF DOGS. 235 



KENNEL MANAGEMENT OF DOGS. 



Before passing to the field, it will be necessary to lay- 

 before the beginner a few instructions for the care of his 

 dogs at home ; the feeding, lodging, exercising them, and 

 getting them into or keeping them in condition, without 

 which all is labor lost. 



Residents in cities have much difficulty both in lodg- 

 ing and exercising their dogs suitably, especially in sum- 

 mer, when the prevalence of the absurd, useless, brutal 

 and demoralizing dog laws are in operation, making it 

 almost impossible to take a dog beyond the precincts of 

 his own guarded yard. 



I call these laws " absurd and useless," because it is a 

 notorious fact and an established medical truth, that dogs 

 are not in any degree more liable to canine rabies in July 

 than in January, perhaps less so. Whatever other causes 

 do produce it, heat and thirst do not. Canine rabies is 

 unknown in Grand Cairo and Constantinople, but common 

 in Quebec with the thermometer at 40 below Zero. 



Besides this, twenty men die every year of kicks from 



